LEADER 00000nim 2200841 i 4500 005 20180628161641.0 006 m o h u 007 cr nna---uuuuu 007 sz zunnnnnzned 008 170104s2016 nyunnnn o h n eng d 020 9780735288676 :|c$95.00 020 0735288674 :|c$95.00 035 (OCoLC)1005796616 037 0019537240|bBaker & Taylor 040 NjBwBT|beng|erda|cNjBwBT|dUtOrBLW 069 01417167 082 04 522/.19744409252 082 04 522/.19744409252|223 099 eAudiobook Boundless 100 1 Sobel, Dava,|eauthor. 245 14 The glass universe :|bhow the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars /|cDava Sobel. |h[Boundless electronic resource] 250 Unabridged. 264 1 New York, NY :|bPenguin Audio,|c[2016] 300 1 online resource (1 audio file) 306 123000 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|2rda 347 audio file|bCD audio|2rda 500 Downloadable audio file. 511 0 Read by Cassandra Campbell. 520 In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or "human computers," to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group included the wives, sisters, and daughters of the resident astronomers, but soon the female corps included graduates of the new women's colleges?Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the ladies turned from computation to studying the stars captured nightly on glass photographic plates. The "glass universe" of half a million plates that Harvard amassed over the ensuing decades?through the generous support of Mrs. Anna Palmer Draper, the widow of a pioneer in stellar photography?enabled the women to make extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what stars were made of, divided the stars into meaningful categories for further research, and found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Their ranks included Williamina Fleming, a Scottish woman originally hired as a maid who went on to identify ten novae and more than three hundred variable stars; Annie Jump Cannon, who designed a stellar classification system that was adopted by astronomers the world over and is still in use; and Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne, who in 1956 became the first ever woman professor of astronomy at Harvard?and Harvard's first female department chair. Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden history of the women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe. 520 Shares the story of the scientific contributions of a group of women working at the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-twentieth century, tracing their collection of star observations captured nightly on glass photographic plates. 538 Requires Boundless App. 588 Description based on original audiobook record. 600 10 Bailey, Solon I.|q(Solon Irving),|d1854- 600 10 Cannon, Annie Jump,|d1863-1941. 600 10 Draper, Mary Anna,|d1839-1914. 600 10 Fleming, Williamina P.,|d1857-1911. 600 10 Leavitt, Henrietta Swan,|d1868-1921. 600 10 Maury, Antonia C.,|d1866-1952. 600 10 Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia,|d1900-1979. 600 10 Pickering, Edward C.|q(Edward Charles),|d1846-1919. 600 10 Shapley, Harlow,|d1885-1972. 600 17 Bailey, Solon I.|q(Solon Irving),|d1854-|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01806271 600 17 Cannon, Annie Jump,|d1863-1941.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01661459 600 17 Fleming, Williamina P.,|d1857-1911.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01957442 600 17 Leavitt, Henrietta Swan,|d1868-1921.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01604108 600 17 Maury, Antonia C.,|d1866-1952.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01959175 600 17 Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia,|d1900-1979.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00035973 600 17 Pickering, Edward C.|q(Edward Charles),|d1846-1919.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00199996 600 17 Shapley, Harlow,|d1885-1972.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00007259 610 20 Harvard College Observatory. 610 27 Harvard College Observatory.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00541468 648 7 1800-1999|2fast 650 0 Women in astronomy|zMassachusetts|xHistory. 650 0 Women mathematicians|zMassachusetts|xHistory. 650 0 Astronomy|xHistory|y19th century. 650 0 Astronomy|xHistory|y20th century. 650 7 Astronomy.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00819673 650 7 Women in astronomy.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01177831 650 7 Women mathematicians.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01178130 651 7 Massachusetts.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204307 655 4 Downloadable audio books. 655 7 Audiobooks.|2lcgft 655 7 Audiobooks.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01726208 655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 Campbell, Cassandra,|enarrator. 776 08 |iElectronic reproduction of (manifestation):|aSobel, Dava.|tGlass universe : how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars|dNew York, NY : Penguin Audio, [2016]|z9780735288645|w(NjBwBT)bl2016051154 |w(OCoLC)945647038 856 40 |uhttps://naper.boundless.baker-taylor.com/ng/view/library /title/0019537240|zFound on Boundless